Sonam slams Instagram for allowing death threats against sister

Both the sisters have received a lot of hate on social media lately


Entertainment Desk July 01, 2020

Bollywood actor Sonam Kapoor has lashed out at both trolls wishing death upon her sister, Rhea Kapoor and Instagram for not barring offensive posts, reported Times of India. the Veere Di Wedding star re-shared a series of screenshots of the death threats Rhea had received. received. Sonam criticised Instagram from not having a filter in regard tot he content being allowed.

“Instagram doesn’t think death threats is a violation or their India team can’t read Hindi,” Sonam wrote with the screenshot. Instagram had responded to Rhea’s report saying that the abusive comment wishing ‘death’ upon her, did not go against their community guideline. They suggested that she could unfollow, mute or block the person.

Rhea wrote, “Of course I will block this individual but are you doing your part to keep the ‘community’ safe?” She also shared a screenshot of the comment that read: “Tu toh kutte ki maut maregi din (You’ll die a dog’s death someday).” Rhea added, “Just charming. Of course I am happy to block unnecessarily hateful people without giving it a thought but what pisses me off is that a death threat isn’t against your ‘community guideline’ Instagram?”

After Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s untimely and supremely tragic demise on June 14, many ‘star kids’ in Bollywood have gotten heat from netizens against nepotism. Sonam was also made a target after she tweeted in connection to Sushant’s death, saying, “Blaming a girlfriend, ex-girlfriend, family, colleagues for someone’s death is ignorant and mean spirited.” 

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